Jesus Maldonado headed to work at the Buenavista farm
early that morning. Curiously the road leads him to the point by which
the tractor driver would later encounter the landed object and the witness
cannot explain why he was unable to see it at that time.

Maldonado boarded his tractor and began plowing. At 8:30
a.m he became aware of an intense light toward the east, facing him. At
first he thought the light belonged to a motorcycle owned by one of the
area's goatherders, who was coming toward him for a chat.

Suddenly the light went off and he was able to see how
a trunco-conical object began rising from the ground to an altitude of
three meters. The object might have been three meters in diameter by two
meters tall. Its appearance was metallic and a reddish-orange color. It
was able to split in two parts, a lower one (roughly 1/3 of the object)
which remained fixed and unmoving, and an upper part (roughly 2/3 of the
object) which rotated very slowly from left to right. The object
was windowless
and lightless, and lacked signs or emblems on its structure. It was located
at a distance of some 200 meters. At the time, the farm was cropland at
the time. Normally barley is cultivated and there were still remains of
last year's barley around, since the tractor had not yet started
its work.

Maldonado stopped the tractor's motor and observed the
object. Something appeared to protrude from the lower, non-rotating part
- a sort of appendix which could not be clearly seen because the sun was
directly behind the object and the appendix was almost on its back. He
also noticed that object was not completely circular - rather, it had some
sort of gentle ondulations to its structure. The objeto began to fly toward
the witness without making a sound, and moved at an extraordinarily slow
rate of speed. The witness was standing in a location slightly higher thatn
the object, so as the object moved toward him, it was also rising very
slowly to match the terrain. Maldonado suddenly felt afraid and states
in his own words that "I didn't know if to start crying or run the
away."

The object placed itself at a distance of 50 meters from
the witness, stopping its forward motion, and began to recede at exactly
the same maddeningly slow speed. It went beyond its landing point
and placed
itself near a cattle farm known as La Polilla. It then stopped and began
heading toward the witness once more, however, when it passed over him
(heading westward) it was now quite high in the air.

The witness kept looking at it until the object seemed
very small in the sky 30 minutes elapsed from the initial sighting until
it disappeared completely. The witness composed himself and continued with
his work. He drove the tractor to the object's landing area and finds an
imprint measuring approximately 3 meters in diameter with a wedge
(measuring
approximately 1.5 meters) protruding through one of the sides of
the circle.
All of the grass (last season's barley) was crushed within the circle,
although not extensively.

That very same day, feeling rather scared and nervous,
he told a friend at Alhama de Granada about the incident. The
friend (Antonio
Cerezo) hada also had a UFO experience a few years ago. After thinking
it over for several days, he decided to tell his story to a journalist
from the IDEAL newspaper to see if other witnesses will step
forward.

No further witnesses to this event have been found. The
sighting took place at 8:30 in the morning and although neighboring farms
are usually quite busy. Given the fact that it was Good Friday very few
people went outside to work the fields.

S.I.B. rebuilt the landing print based on the witness's
recollections and descriptions. We headed to the site and made
some elecromagnetic
readings which did not yield positive results. Soil samples were taken
and shall be analyzed shortly in spite of the problem posed by the soil's
tilling.

A visit to the S.I.B. page is recommended to see updates
and photograps of this case, which shall be made available to the
UFO community
shortly.